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Samuel Bjork

2007-2008

Undergraduate Columns

Of all the difficult decisions one confronts as an undergraduate, the selection of concentration is perhaps the hardest. Fortunately, it is also…
Many Harvard undergraduates give personal happiness and reflective decision-making short shrift in the race for academic accolades and…
The Harvard I know today began in the most unlikely of ways: with a cup of tea, served loose-leaf in a ceramic mug, as I sat at a table littered with books and papers, impossibly squeezed between the bookshelves and free-standing chalkboard of a narrow Semitic Museum office.

Sam graduated from Harvard College in 2010 with a degree in chemistry, before pursuing a research degree in biology from the University of Cambridge. Now in his second year as a Marshall Scholar, he is a student in the Economic and Social History program at Oxford University. He continues to write (fitfully), and hopes to write full-time someday soon.

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